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The barnacle excretory organ

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

K. N. White  and
G. Walker
K. N. White
Affiliation:
N.E.R.C. Unit of Marine Invertebrate Biology, Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, Gwynedd
G. Walker
Affiliation:
N.E.R.C. Unit of Marine Invertebrate Biology, Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, Gwynedd
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The paired excretory organs or maxillary glands of the adult barnacles, Balanus balanoides and Balanus hameri, lie within the posterior part of the body below and to either side of the foregut. Each organ has an end sac linked to an efferent duct via a valve. The sac-shaped efferent duct connects with a relatively short terminal duct, opening out at the base of the second maxilla. The end sac consists of podocytelike cells having marked morphological and cytochemical similarities to the equivalent region of other Crustacea and to the vertebrate glomerulus. The main cells of the valve contain extensive apical secretion. They rest upon a series of modified end-sac cells projecting into the efferent duct. The efferent duct is composed of a uniform flattened epithelium which is cytochemically unreactive. The cells are lined by a short microvillous border, below which is a series of tubules which appear to be invaginations of the apical membrane. The morphology of efferent duct cells is not indicative of a highly active solute reabsorptive epithelium, but secretion of membrane-bound bodies into the efferent duct lumen was observed. The terminal duct is a relatively short, cuticle-lined ectodermal infolding. The parenchyma cells surrounding the efferent duct exhibit a marked affinity for certain dyes when injected into the haemolymph, indicative of a possible role in the elimination of material. The excretory organ is surrounded by a network of elastic fibres and is suspended within the body by strands of connective tissue and a complex series of tendon-muscle connexions. The end sac is well supplied with haemolymph from the scutal sinus but the supply to the efferent duct is more restricted.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 61 , Issue 2 , May 1981 , pp. 529 - 547
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1981

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